May 9, 2008

I love the way he pauses and really thinks before adding the "-seven."

AND: Let's try to make a list of the 9 additional states Obama envisions in our audaciously hopeful collection of states. (I'm saying 9 not 7 because he asserts that he's been to 2 less than the total.)

Yes, he sounds pretty stupid. But I think he meant to say he's visited 47 states, with one left to go -- 48 contiguous states. That's why he mentions Alaska and Hawaii, as two states he isn't planning on visiting during the primary.

If a certain other nominee had said that he’d been to 57 states, MSM journalists would be playing the geezer card, saying, um, he’s lost his bearings. Surprised that it was reported by the L.A.Times, though, of course, buried in a blogsite. A search of the NYT shows no reference to this.

Who cares? Generally, MSM journalists simply restate things when Democrats misspeak like this to reflect what the Dem candidate was obviously trying to say instead of playing gotcha. But playing gotcha with Republicans like Bush & McCain, & now sniping at Hillary, is de rigueur for the MSM.

If you give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he thought he'd started with "forty," he still has the total wrong and thinks it's 49, which is especially bad coming from someone from Hawaii.

He says "fifty . . . seven states? I think one left to go. Uh, one left to go -- Alaska and Hawaii I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to because -- but my staff, uh, would not justify it."

I think that gets him to 57 +1 +Alaska +Hawaii = 60. Or, more charitably, 50. Not to say that he hasn't expressed a little confusion over whether Alaska and Hawaii count as states, in the past, because he has. But I don't see it here.

To me it is obvious that this is the DNC's master plan to ensure Obama can win the Electoral College. Now they just need to find 9 new left leaning states, especially ones that take away Electoral votes from normally red states. So under the super-secret DNC plan, Miami, Denver, St Louis, Houston, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Cleveland, Philadephia, and Puerto Rico will become 'states', and be given the requisite number of electors based on the population taken away from their former state. Genius! It is too bad that Obama had to go and lose his bearings and reveal the whole plan!

Why not apply the same judgment to bloggers; i.e., that what might appear to be misspeaking is in every case the measure of the author's state of knowledge. That would not pose a problem for any present blogger, would it? And think of the fun that can be made in every case, if what appears to be misspeaking is never misspeaking.

I think he was making a joke about how long this campaign has been going on already (and it's still just the primaries). As a Harvard Grad and US Senator, I'm pretty sure he knows how many states there are. This is silly.

I think he was making a joke about how long this campaign has been going on already (and it's still just the primaries). As a Harvard Grad and US Senator, I'm pretty sure he knows how many states there are. This is silly.

If that was supposed to be a joke, then he's crap at comic timing. What kind of moron steps on the punchline of his joke with a laboured explanation about how Alaska and Hawaii are excluded from the total because his aides won't let him go?

If you give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he thought he'd started with "forty," he still has the total wrong and thinks it's 49, which is especially bad coming from someone from Hawaii.

Ann, listen to the clip again, but substitute forty for fifty...it makes perfect sense. I'm not fan of Obama, having had to deal with his spiel since he was a state senator from my district, but it's not nearly as big a gaffe as you make it out to be.

He meant to say, I've been to 47 states, one left to go, not counting Alaska and Hawaii, which his aides wouldn't let him go to. So...47+1+2 = 50.

This is one of the worst tendencies of the blogosphere. Looking for a misstatement so we can pounce (a misstatement still isn't as egregious as a lie, for all you Hillaryphiles).

Okay smartasses, how many of the fifty states are commonwealths and which are they? I realize you can get this information easily enough. But how many of you know off the top of your heads? That's what I thought.

Now that we've established that joggerfy ain't your long suit, perhaps a soupcon of STFU might be in order.

Ballyfager: Okay smartasses, how many of the fifty states are commonwealths and which are they? I realize you can get this information easily enough. But how many of you know off the top of your heads? That's what I thought.

Now that we've established that joggerfy ain't your long suit, perhaps a soupcon of STFU might be in order.

Go start a flamewar elsewhere, Ballyfager. This is how we entertain ourselves in the blogosphere. At least Ann Althouse is fair about pointing out misstatements on all sides, which can hardly be said for hard-leftist blog sites. Un-knot your panties and try to grin, because there will be plenty of opportunities on both sides to pounce on stupid statements.

Ignorance born of contempt. Very much like his coreligionist of the Left, Al Gore, who stated that E Pluribus Unum meant In One Many. Harvard grad? U.S. Senator? So what. His whole life he's been marinating in disdain for the very nation he purports to rule. Why know the specifics of a place that is mere putty good for one thing only -- kneeding!

and finally, Bally: one train leaves chicago going east at 40 miles/hour; one train leaves NYC going west at 50 miles/hour and both are on the same track--where do they meet? Or, if you dont like word problems, just differentiate sin(2x^3)cos(x^2). That chain rule was always a bitch.

If they made a movie about that, could they call it “Transylvania 6-5000”, or would George Hamilton object?

BTW, we had our wedding reception in the Hotel Pennsylvania, long, long ago. We came in for a college reunion in '99 & stayed there on a special. Worth every dollar! You can't go home again.

Anyway, recently someone asked me if I remembered my wedding reception. I told him that I even remembered the 'phone # for the reception Hotel! (The old Glenn Miller tuneless Pennsylvania 6-5000.) He acted like I'd, um, lost my bearings. Some reading this post may agree.

Maybe he was thinking districts, territories and possessions also. Or is just tired.

Hey, Ann. Are you going to mention the war on Iraqi civilians being drive from their homes into camps? Oh, US and Iraqi forces are doing that.

Hard to see how that improves things.

For a while there, I just thought you were the starry-eyed kid who held the pot that Obama pissed in. I really owe you an apology because I've completely misjudged you and what you've been doing for his great campaign. I can clearly see now that you've been holding his dick to help him aim instead.

Come on, you know where Barak keeps his 'bearings' don't you? They are in jar that his wife puts them and brings them down from time to time so he can klink them lovingly just to make sure he had them to begin with.

I also forgot Bunyan (John, of course, not Paul, Paul is one of the MSM's earlier myths, a tradition carried by today's MSM "there were chills up my spine, & some thrills I can't define..." cf Chris Matthews & the CNN Babes on the Obamessiah plane.)

And, yes, Bliss. "Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven." Alas, “I an old man, A dull head among windy spaces.” "I grow old…I grow old… I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”